I grow hardly a half acre of corn in narrow strips, with clover between the strips, on land that is almost level.
我艰难地在狭长地带上种了半英亩的玉米，在这之间一块几乎平坦的地上种了三叶草。
It was a great honour to be invited backstage at the not-for-profit Panda Base, where ticket money helps pay for research, I was allowed to get up close to these cute animals at the 600-acre centre.
能被邀请到非营利性熊猫基地的后台，我感到非常荣幸。在那里，门票收入用来支付研究费用，我可以在600英亩的中心近距离地接触这些可爱的动物。
“well, ” betty recalls, ” I didn’t know an acre from a half acre. So I said, ’ I have six kids.
“呃，”贝蒂回忆道，“我不知道1英亩和半英亩的区别，所以我说，‘我有6个孩子，6英亩怎么样？’
But most of the time I suspected they felt safe at our little compound, on a twenty-acre rounded piece of granite far from liquor stores and bars.
但大多数时候我觉得他们是在我这儿找到了安全感，围坐在20英亩的圆形花岗岩地上，远离贩酒店和酒吧。
Last spring, my family and I moved from our 22-acre farm in western Massachusetts to the center of Brattleboro.
去年春天，我们全家离开了我们在麻省西部的一个22英亩的农场，搬到了Brattleboro镇的中心。
This optimism seemed well-founded on my second day in the country, when I arrived in the Kulala Wilderness, a 91,400-acre refuge adjacent to the NamibRand Nature Reserve.
那是我在那个国家的第二天，当我到达Kulala，一个91400英亩的毗邻NamibRand自然保护区的难民区，这份乐观看起来理由充分。
It would be too ridiculous for me to attempt anything where I am now, with my little half acre.
我只有半英亩那么一片地方，我要是想在我住的那个地方作一番建树，那就太可笑了。
Hi. Well, I live on an acre of land outside Melbourne but my family actually came here from Greece in the 1980s?
大家好。我住在墨尔本外的一片土地上，但是我的家人实际上是1980年代从希腊来到这里的？
I first encountered stargazing tourism several years ago at the Maui resort and Spa in Hawaii, a 40-acre resort with 13 sweeping views of Kaanapali Beach.
几年前，我在夏威夷的毛伊岛水疗度假村首次接触到“观星游”这一概念，在这个40英亩的度假胜地上，卡亚·纳帕里海滩的风光可以尽收眼底。
Monty then turned to the assembled group and said, "I tell you this story because you are sitting in my 4,000-square-foot house in the middle of my 200-acre horse ranch."
然后，蒙蒂转向聚集的人群说：“我告诉你们这个故事，是因为你们目前正坐在我4000平方英尺的房子里，它就坐落在我这200英亩的养马场中心。”
In another instance, I was head of maintenance at a 5,000-acre orchard.
另一个实例，当我担任一个5000英亩的果园维修主管的时候。
I took this shot of a giant anteater in the Fazenda Barranco Alto, a 30,000-acre cattle ranch and wildlife preserve in the Pantanal of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul.
在巴西的阿托尔深峡谷庄园，我拍摄到了这只巨型食蚁兽。那里是一个面积达3万英亩的大农场，同时也是巴西南马托格罗索州沼泽区的野生动物保护地。
Even I could carry a quarter-acre paddock, set it up in 15 minutes.
即使是我也能够围成一个四分之一亩大小的围场，在15分钟内安置完毕。
When I was younger this was the season for walking through the melting snow and ice, across roadsides, through square acre forests among the fields, I got so excited to be out in the wild.
在我更小一些的时候，这个季节里我常常踩着正在融化的冰雪，走过路边，穿过田间大片大片的树林，呆在野外我是如此的兴奋。
I spouted undigested theories about the beauty of nature versus the ugliness of modern civilization until your dad agreed to move to a three-acre farm.
我一知半解地大谈特谈自然如何之美，相比之，现代文明又是如何之丑陋等等的理论，直到你们的爸爸同意搬到一个三英亩的农庄方才罢休。
I spouted undigested theories about the beauty of nature versus the ugliness of modern civilization until your dad agreed to move to a three-acre farm.
我一知半解地大谈特谈自然如何之美，相比之，现代文明又是如何之丑陋等等的理论，直到你们的爸爸同意搬到一个三英亩的农庄方才罢休。
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